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The killing of Dorothy Stang, a Catholic nun who was shot three times in the face, has thrown the spotlight back on the failure of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to crack down on illegal logging.

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Many activists at the forum compared unfettered capitalism and the US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq to the tsunami that struck Indian Ocean shores last month, saying the deaths caused in poor countries by First World greed were countless. "Poverty is a man-made tsunami," said John Samuel, from India, a founding member of Global Call to Action Against Poverty launched yesterday at the forum. "The biggest tyranny in the world is the tyranny of an empty stomach."

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Lula heckled off stage at world social forum

The rich and foreign based corporations are still very entrenched throughout Latin America. And that's the problem.

[ 14 February 2005: Message edited by: Fidel ]